BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards and a majority of state House members oppose a state senator’s call for the cancellation of public school athletics this fall despite Louisiana’s surging coronavirus outbreak.
Edwards says Senate Education Chairman Cleo Fields’ push to suspend K-12 athletic events as a safety precaution was well-meaning.
But the Democratic governor says it’s “just a little too early” to make such a sweeping determination.
Louisiana is seeing renewed spikes in the COVID-19 disease and patient hospitalizations.
A group of 56 Republican state representatives and seven state senators penned a letter to Louisiana’s education leaders, urging a normal extracurricular sports schedule as schools reopen.
Wednesday, LHSAA Executive Director Eddie Bonine says that the LHSAA is “fully committed” to holding fall sports in the fall.
